Price and calculator
Website cost calculator: where does your site fall?
Pages, languages, features and content decide the price. Pick yours, see where you land, and compare it with what agencies charge in your market.
What does a website cost for your business?
The range in short
A custom website from VBS costs from 1,500 euros for a one-pager to 5,000 euros or more for a large site. Where you fall depends on four things: how many pages, how many languages, which features, and whether we create copy and images for you.
- Around 1,500 euros
- A one-pager: who you are, what you do and how to get in touch.
- In the middle
- A business site with a page per service, or a second language.
- Near the top
- Many pages on your search terms, several languages, a calculator or a booking calendar.
- 5,000 euros or more
- A webshop, a client portal or a large site where everything comes together.
Why one site costs more than another
This website cost calculator places your site on the one price range we work with. The price does not follow the number of buttons but what the site has to bring in. If a client only needs to find you and call, one strong page does it. If you want to be found on every service, every sector and every city you work in, each search term needs its own page, with its own copy and title.
Languages come on top, because a French-speaking client searches with other words than a Dutch-speaking one, and so do features: a booking calendar, a calculator or a client portal is its own piece of work. Copy written on your search terms and your own photo shoot make the difference between a site that exists and a site that works. You get a fixed price per part, not an hourly rate that keeps running.
What a website costs, in Belgium and in your market
Few agencies publish prices. In Belgium, where we build, these are the ranges you will meet in 2026, next to ours:
| Kind of site | Belgian market | With VBS |
|---|---|---|
| Brochure site or one-pager | 500 to 1,500 euros | from 1,500 euros, designed and built for you, not on a theme |
| Business site with a page per service | 2,000 to 6,000 euros | between 1,500 and 5,000 euros for a few pages in one language; 5,000 euros or more with many pages or languages |
| Webshop | 4,000 to 15,000 euros or more | 5,000 euros or more, depending on catalogue, payment and shipping |
| Paying by the hour | freelancers 30 to 80 euros, agencies 50 to 150 euros | no hourly rate: a fixed price per part, after a call |
Elsewhere, hourly rates are the only public yardstick. Senior freelance developers ask 78 to 125 dollars an hour in the UK, 80 to 125 in the Netherlands, 85 to 140 in Germany and 95 to 150 in the United States; a UK contract web developer's median day rate is 475 pounds. Our page for a web development agency in Europe puts agency rates per market side by side, and web developer hourly rates goes deeper.
What you get at each point of the range
| One-pager | A few pages | Large site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages | one page with your offer, your area and a clear button | a page per service, about, contact | a page per service, sector or city, each on a term people search |
| Languages | one | one or two | two to four, each with its own copy and search terms |
| Features | a contact form or a WhatsApp button | a booking request or a simple calculator | a calculator, a booking calendar, a client portal or an integration |
| Copy and images | you supply them, we set them up | we write the key pages | copy on your search terms and a shoot of your team and work |
| Existing site | none, or a small one | redirects for the pages that matter | every old address redirects, so you lose nothing in Google |
Save on the number of pages rather than on their quality. A small site that loads fast and aims at the right search terms brings in more than a large one nobody finds.
Four real sites on the scale
Sites we built, from one page to a site with calculators.
- A one-pager that brings requestsPark & Wash, a car detailer in Ghent, says on one page what it does and where. Private clients ask for a price on WhatsApp, companies with a fleet through their own form.
- A page per sector, in four languagesFK Boekhouding has its own page for hospitality, construction, transport and eight more sectors, in Dutch, French, English and Turkish.
- A holiday home that takes its own requestsNo.4 Lange Ast shows the house in four languages, with availability pulled from its Airbnb and Booking calendars. Guests ask directly, without commission.
- Calculators that draw visitorsSN Group, a builder, lets visitors price their renovation and check grants, permits and VAT. The cost calculator draws most of the site's impressions outside the brand name.
What you pay every year after launch
| Cost | What it is | What it costs |
|---|---|---|
| Domain name | your address, in your name | a few tens of euros a year at a registrar |
| Hosting a static site | the files on a CDN | often nothing: AWS CloudFront's free plan covers a million requests a month |
| Hosting a WordPress site | a server with a database | a monthly package, plus theme and plugin updates |
| Email on your domain | you@yourbusiness.com | Google Workspace Business Starter from 6.80 euros per user per month on a yearly plan, excluding VAT |
| Changes | new pages, copy, features | only when you need them, priced up front |
A custom site without plugins has no updates you must pay someone to install. If you compare against a builder, read Wix pricing in euro for the full bill, and how long a website takes to build for the time it costs you. Prefer to pay monthly? The sum is in pay monthly website packages.
How to compare website quotes
- Put them side by side per part. Pages, languages, features, copy, images, redirects. A quote that does not split them hides where the money goes.
- Ask who writes the copy. If you write it, add your own hours to the price.
- Ask what happens in year two. Hosting, updates, licences and changes.
- Ask who owns what. Domain, hosting account, code and Search Console in your name.
- Ask for live sites. Open them on your phone, run our website speed test and our SEO checker on them.
Our website brief template lists the questions that set the price, so every agency quotes the same thing.
A site for your sector
What a site has to do differs per sector, and so does where it lands on the scale: a contractor wants requests with photos of the job, a holiday home wants direct bookings, a law firm wants trust and a page per practice area. Start from the page closest to your business:
- A small business website: a page per service and a site that brings in requests.
- A website for contractors: projects, a cost calculator and requests with the right details.
- A restaurant website: menu, reservations and reviews, without commission.
- A direct booking website for a holiday home: your own calendar next to Airbnb and Booking.
- A website for law firms: a page per practice area, in your languages.
- Landing page design: one page per campaign, built to convert.
- Close to us: web design in Ghent.
What buyers abroad ask about the price
- Do you quote in pounds or dollars?
- We quote and invoice in euros. A business client in another EU country with a valid VAT number is invoiced without Belgian VAT under the reverse charge; how Belgian invoices handle that is on our page about web design in Ghent.
- What is not in the calculator?
- Running costs: your domain name, hosting and mailboxes on your domain. The table above lists them; for a static site the hosting is often free.
- Can we start small and add languages later?
- Yes. Start with the pages that bring the most in, and add services, markets or languages once the first clients arrive. Planning a second language from the start makes it cheaper to add, because menus and addresses already make room for it.
- Why does the calculator not show an amount per option?
- Because two sites with the same choices can differ: ten short pages are less work than five pages with a calculator. The tool shows where you fall and what pushes the price up; the fixed price comes after a call.
Website design
How VBS turns your result into a fixed price
Fill in the calculator above; your choices travel along into the contact form. In a call we pin down the pages, languages, features and who writes the copy, and you get a fixed price per part. A site is usually live in two to six weeks, and you follow the build on a test link. What is in every site we build is on our website design page; for online sales, see webshop development. Proof that a site on the right search terms pays back: Business Centrum went from 220 to 10,200 Google impressions a day in five weeks. Book a call and tell us what your site has to bring in.
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